... Luckily none of these flying acts missed the opportunity to present the aircraft to the public on the apron, and the many photographers alike. Opportunities to get nice photos of arguably one of the bast ...

... a beautiful light. Usually very difficult to photograph in the distinctive black scheme for those clandestine night missions, the low sun was just perfect to get nice photographs of that special airplane ...

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P-63A Kingcobra
Based on a photograph from December 1945 showing that very same airframe wearing serial 42-68941 at Moffett Field, California, the CAF Dixie Wing wisely decided to also put the striking ...

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"Warbirds over the Beach" Airshow
Regarding photography the airshow proved to be a challenge. Due to the airfield’s layout the crowd is facing the sun when watching the runway, and the flying happen ...

The „Fly Navy“ event / airshow at Shuttleworth is a close cooperation between the Shuttleworth collection and the “Fly Navy Heritage Trust”. As every flying event at the remarkable airfield in Bedfordshire ...

... ite well hidden behind trees and covered by a winding construction of the overall layout.
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The actual photographers delight of this setting is not ...

... he airfield and present different tactical maneuvers. Unfortunately this was again against a dark gray sky, and thus only the take-offs and landings were worth for photography. To finish the day the Eurofighter ...

The SU-27 Flanker, MiG-21 LanceR and MiG-29 Fulcrum are apart from being three Cold War warriors and rare Russian-build jets three excellent airshow acts that you can hardly argue about. For its 2016 edition ...

... test centre and furthermore at Tsuiki on the Southern island of Kyushu. For the Japanese aviation photographers this meant traveling a lot, trying to catch if possible the display training at least once ...

... aviation hardware. Though the city of Medellin might not be the first thing coming to ones mind when thinking about aviation photography, the Show itself provided a great chance to catch a lot of the hardware ...

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Unfortunately the MiG-29 Fulcrums did not move at all during my stay, and I thus had to settle for photographing the F-7. But seeing those r ...

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Apart from the metal birds Hokkaido is also very popular amongst bird photographers. I also took my time to visit two interesting places for bird photography during tha ...

... DF helicopter (training) units and greatly accessible for photography, especially early in the morning. Apart from the AH-64D Apache and CH-47 Chinook the based helicopters posed nicely in front of the l ...

... was a lot better than what the weather forecast has constantly announced during the week before the event. And getting a good chance to photograph the special schemes already made my day!
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Some kilometers further away the crowd sits densely packed on the apron and watches the show. There are not many different aircraft in the air, but different set-ups keep the movements busy and the photographers ...

... birds with one stone.
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If the air show seems to be dominated too much by display teams, and the static display un-photographable, the departur ...

... es mascot a distinctive look as finally created. And it was one that made many many Phantom Phanatics all over the world buzzing with excitement!
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Such a stunning scheme had to be photograp ...

... ope, who enjoy the friendly German atmosphere and food. Due to the orientation of the runway and safety regulations the crowd unfortunately faces the sun nearly during the whole day, which makes photog ...

... m the museums most people did not believe, but Vietnam as quite an active spotter and photographer scene. You can visit the "Vietnamese Air Spotters" website at www.vnas.vn! Photography generally se ...

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Of course WTD61 did not fly to please the photographers and Phantom "phans" that gathered in great numbers during the last days of F-4F operations along the fence at Manching, but for their own operationa ...

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